I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
CLAUDETTE COLVINAs long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.
More Claudette Colvin Quotes
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Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
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When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
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What do we have to do to make God love us?’ I always grew up with that. I always used to go around thinking that. ‘God loved the white people better. He must’ve. That’s why he made them white.’
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I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.
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When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.
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I was ostracized by my community.
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As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.
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I left the South in 1963 and was living in Morristown, New Jersey, when the March on Washington took place, so I watched it on television instead.
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New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn’t even go into the same restaurants.
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There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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I never swore when I was young.
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Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn’t the case at all.
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A lot has changed since I grew up, but there’s still a long way to go. I don’t think we can move forward with Donald Trump as the president. There’s a disconnect there. We don’t want to regress, we want progress.
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